US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Senator Gillibrand Pushes To Provide Accessible, Affordable Housing For Older Americans And People Living With Disabilities

April 30, 2023 Contributor
This week, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, is pushing for a bill to address the housing affordability and accessibility crisis in the United States. The Visitable Inclusive Tax Credits for Accessible Living (VITAL) Act would increase investment in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program and ensure that developers are building more accessible housing units that are designed for older adults and people with disabilities. The bill would also help ensure that new units are located within communities where residents can walk or move around easily in wheelchairs. This bill is led by U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging.

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US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Accelerate FDA Approval Of Drugs To Treat Life-Threatening Illnesses

April 26, 2023 Contributor
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand held a video press conference to announce her bipartisan legislation to expedite provisional FDA approval of drugs intended to treat ALS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other life-threatening diseases. The standard FDA approval process takes many years to get drugs to market, but patients with rapidly progressing illnesses often don’t have many years to wait. Gillibrand’s Promising Pathway Act would accelerate the FDA’s approval process and help get promising treatments to those who need them. 

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US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Gillibrand, Rounds Lead Group Of 41 Bipartisan Senators In Call To Fully Fund U.S.-Israel Missile Defense Cooperation Programs

April 22, 2023 Contributor
This week, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) led a bipartisan group of 41 senators in calling for $500 million to fully fund U.S.-Israel cooperative missile defense programs in the Defense Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2024. Israel’s missile defense system is made up of four operational layers: Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow 2 and now Arrow 3. In addition to contributing to ballistic missile defense, these systems play an important role in countering hostile unmanned aerial systems. 

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US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Senators Gillibrand & Welch, Rep. Velázquez, Anti-Hunger Advocates Introduce Bill To Boost Snap Benefits

April 20, 2023 Contributor
Today, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Peter Welch (D-VT) and Representative Nydia Velázquez (D-NY-07) held a press conference to announce the introduction of the Closing the Meal Gap Act, which would expand and strengthen Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for over 40 million vulnerable Americans, nearly half of whom are children. Other major groups of recipients include older adults, people with disabilities, and veterans.

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Gillibrand Announces Nearly $117 Million To Help NYS Businesses In Underserved Communities Recover From Covid-19

April 14, 2023 Contributor
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced that 43 Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) across New York State will receive $116,822,564 in federal funding to help low- and moderate-income communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds will be used to expand lending related to small businesses and microenterprises, for grant making and investing in underserved communities, and to support borrowers that experienced disproportionate economic impacts from the pandemic and have unmet capital and financial services needs. Additionally, the grant funds may be used to support community facilities, affordable housing, commercial real estate and intermediary lending to non-profits and CDFIs.

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Gillibrand, Grassley, Hirono And Warren Press Ft. Hood On Investigation Into The Death Of Private Ana Basaldua Ruiz

April 14, 2023 Contributor
U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter on April 11, 2023 to Ft. Hood Commander Lieutenant General Sean Bernabe expressing concerns about the circumstances surrounding Private Ana Basaldua Ruiz’s death and pressing for a complete, thorough and impartial investigation.

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ICYMI: Gillibrand Data For Progress Column: ‘Americans Know Snap Feeds The Hungry. Lawmakers Attempting To Slash It Do So At Their Own Peril’

April 11, 2023 Contributor
In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security, penned a column highlighting key findings from a Data For Progress poll on voters’ views of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

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